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Getting the news

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Getting the news

In this illustration from a 1949 issue of the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, a farming family listens to the radio and reads newspapers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Overview, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/18539/getting-the-news (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.